Protective shield for use in applying eyelash make-up



May 9, 1933. H. A. BALLARD ET AL PROTECTIVE SHIELD FOR USE IN APPLYING EYELASH MAKE-UP Filed Nov. 19. 1952 176(6)? fLBaZ'Zard Judiif]; Howl? Patented May 9, 1933 .i-Ficfaf HELEN A. BALLABZD AND JUDITH HART, OF NEW YORK, 1\T. in, AssrenoRs'. To AsTiAN RRoTHERs COMPANY, or RocHEsTER, NEW YORK, A coRroR TIon or NEW YORK PROTECTIVE SHIELD EoR UsE. IN APPLYING EYE'EASH MAKE-UP Application filed November 19, 1932; 'Serial No. 643,482.

The invention relates to a protective guard or shield particularly designed and adapted for use in the protecting of the eyeballs, eyelids and facial parts adjacent to the eyes during the application of cosmetics when the eyelashes are being colored, painted or otherwise treated as by the application of makeup fluid, or other cosmetic material.

A main object of the invention is to construct a protecting device so that it comprises a crescent shaped main shield or guard member with a handle pivotally connected thereto, and which device can serve as a protecting shield such as is above described, when used during an application of cosmetic material to the eyelashes, to wit, at will to either the upper or lower eyelashes of any one eye at a time. The protecting device, which is the subject of the present invention, is constructed as is indicated above so that it will serve as a shield for adjacent facial parts when used during an application of cosmetic material, for example, at one time to the lower eyelid lashes under one position ing of the crescent shaped shield member to the upper eyelashes under another positioning of the crescent shaped shield part or member relative to the handle. In short, according to the present invention there is provided a simple and handy device whereby a party herself or a beauty specialty operator can readily apply at will, a desired cosmetic to either the upper or lower eyelashes of either eye and the device is advantageously adapted for this general and universal type and character of handy employment.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Reference will now be, made to the drawwith the parts in spect to each other; H

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ing forming a part of this specification and in which drawing F lgure lshowsoneniode of employing the guarddevlcewhlch is the subject of the present invention and it will be noted in this figure :that the crescent shaped shield memher is employed in conjunction with the eyelashes of the upper lid of the eye and that the concave edge of the crescent shaped member is lowermost.

. F ig. 2 shows another mode of employing thesame structure and in Fig;. 2'it will be observed thatthe crescent shaped ,guardsor shield member is .employed in conjunction with the eyelashes of a lower lid of the eye and that in this figure and insuch employ- 'ment the concave edge of thecresc'en't shaped .shield member, is uppermost.

F 3 is a vertical front view ofthe protectivel guard device and it WllhlOB noted that n this view the crescent shaped'memher is arranged with reference to .the handle the same as in Figure l with the concave edge of thelcrescent shaped shield -member uppermost. I relative to the handle and at another time Fig. 4is a vertical front view of the protective device but it will benoted that in this figure thesame as in Fig. 2, theiconcave -tective device with the parts shown in the position in-which they occupy i'n Fig. 3.

Fig. 6-shows the protective shield member Fig. 7 is a cross sectional view taken as on the plane-77.bf Fig.6.looking in the direction ofithe arrowsa r Reference will now bemadeto' thedra-wing in-detail. The protective guard or. shieldis It comprises'the crescent shaped shield member 2, the handle 3=pivotally connectedthereto as by'means'of the hollow pivot construction 4. It willbe noted that the ends of the crescent shapedushield member2 are rounded ofi or curved as at 5 and 6, so as to, provide a smooth endconstruc- .tion free from-any, sharp, projectingends,

Inotherwords, by these rounded off ends olded position with .re-

there is avoided the sharp pointed portions incident to a true crescent construction. The crescent shaped shield member and also the handle are preferably constructed of thin sheet flexible material, as celluloid,'and also in the preferred form of construction the crescent shaped shield member is thinner than the handle, whereby the handle will be more,

rigid or relatively rigid as compared with the flexible cresent shaped shield or guard member. However, it is desirable that all the main parts of this protecting device, namely, the cresent shaped shield member and the handle be relatively flexible and yieldable, whereby it will be impossible to injure the eye of a person with respect to which it is used.

It will be noted that the protective shield construction, as a whole, is suchthat either side of the crescent shaped shield member can be used next to the face and that it can always be used. with the lower or free end of thehandle lowermost and in-conjunction with either the upper or lower eyelashes of either eye at the will of the user, as will be clearly apparent from a comparison of Figs. 1 and 2. It will also be manifest that this protecting device can be made of any suitable thin flexible yieldable sheet material, other than celluloid, for example, cellophane, pyralin, or the like.

What is claimed is:

' 1. A protecting guard of the character-described comprising a crescent shaped shield member of flexible sheet material, in which shieldthe ends of the crescent are rounded off or curved so as to avoid any sharp points at the crescent ends, and a handle pivotally connected to the crescent shaped member near one endof the crescent, the construction we hereunto set our hands.

HELEN A. BALLARD.

JUDITH HART.

being such that the handle can be used with the free end of the handlelowermost and at I will with either the convex edge or concave edge of the crescent shaped member uppermost.

2. A protective guard as defined in and by the claim last preceding, inwhich the crescent shield member and the handle are formed of thin sheet flexible material and are pivotally connected so that the handle can be swung over the shieldmember with the adj acent flat faces of the handle and shield member in contact.

3. A protective guard of the character described comprising a crescent shaped shield member of thin flexible sheet'materialas celluloid, in which the ends of the crescent shaped member are curved so as to avoid any sharp projecting portions at the ends of the crescent shaped member and a handle of thin flexible sheet material, as celluloid, connected by means of a metal rivet to an end portion of the crescent shaped shield member so that the handle and crescent shaped shield mem- *ber are free to swing one relative to-the other 5 with a flat'fac'e of one in contacting engage- 

